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Git hits for github: are you awesome enough to be in the top 10 in your city?
- rcfox 16y agoHow come there's a fixed list of cities? Why not let users search for a city?
- aaronfeng 16y agoCurrently, I'm aggregating data from github since there's no way of getting those values live (to my knowledge). I'm staying with the limit of the api rule so I'm limited to how much data I can retrieve per week. Yes it would be awesome if I can do it for more cities.
- kyleburton 16y agoLooks like a recruiter's dashboard. :/
- simonsarris 16y agoSadly its not "in your city" but "in twelve US cities." I was really hoping that I could see if there were even other people who used Git in New Hampshire and how prominent they were.
- aaronfeng 16y agoTrue, I would love to expand. But within github api limit I'm limited to what cities I can pick. Maybe NH would come next :)
- acangiano 16y agoGet in touch with the GitHub people. They are some of the most reasonable people on the planet. I'm sure they'll help you somehow.
- aaronfeng 16y agoTotally, that would be cool.
- enoptix 16y agoI'd love to see Chicago up there if you get around those limits.
- aaronfeng 16y agoChicago def should be on it. I'll add it next.
- necubi 16y agoYou could let users enter their a city and fetch the data locally via javascript. That way, the usage counts against their IP's API limit, not yours. Edit: To be more clear, this would only work for showing the data to the user that requests it, not sending it back to the server for other users to see.
- nbpoole 16y agoYes, except then you're relying on data coming from untrusted users. How long do you think it would take before someone figures out a way to put themselves at the top of the list? ;) Edit: OK. Assuming you're only looking at data locally, you'll probably run into API limits. Users are only allowed to make 60 requests to the API per minute. My guess is you need more than that to generate these statistics.
- kodablah 16y agoYou have Houston but not Dallas? Actually, it would be better if it were by metro if you're not going to let the users choose their suburbs and what not.
- zck 16y agoWashington, D.C. Most Issues 1. congress (48) There's a joke to be made here.
- petercooper 16y agoBoulder? I understand all the other choices but didn't realize Boulder was such a hotbed of developers. Is it? (If you're taking votes, Los Angeles seems a significant omission at this stage.)
- chrisbaglieri 16y agoPerhaps not in total population but Boulder definitely has a solid startup presence, relatively speaking (SimpleGeo, OneRiot, TechStars, ...). update: But certainly, LA and Chicago (mentioned elsewhere) are good additions.
- crux_ 16y agoHmm... just glancing at the most-watched & most-forked totals, Boulder is ahead of both Atlanta and Houston -- for what it's worth (not much). Besides startups the other replier mentioned, there's also a lot of bigger software-centric & tech companies here for a city this size. (IBM, Su--Oracle, Rally, Vexcel (now Microsoft), Rational (now IBM), Google...)
- psadauskas 16y agoBoulder has a ton of developers, and really active communities in Ruby, Python and startups. Coffee shops and restaurants downtown at lunch time are a lot like ones in SOMA in SF: there's several tables' worth of nerds sitting around talking software or startups.
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- bmc 16y agoSo, evidently, it doesn't do any proximity analysis. I listed my location as "Limerick, PA, US", which is outside Philadelphia. It'd be interesting to add that capability.
- aaronfeng 16y agoTotally, I would love it add that. I actually have all PA data already.
- jamesbritt 16y agoThat would sweet. Checking out Phoenix (interesting choice of city to include, BTW) I saw github names of people I know, but who, like me, don't live or work in Phoenix, but in neighboring towns. I'm guessing they (like many) opted for placing themselves in the nearest largest city. Me, I went for Scottsdale, which borders Phoenix. "metro area" searches would be a very cool addition.
- kencausey 16y agoWell, my 'city' is not shown, but I think the answer is almost certainly yes since I doubt 10 people here have github accounts. It would be nice to be proved wrong about that.
- tmcw 16y agoMy company's 3rd most followed and 3rd most repos in DC! (and I'm 2nd in gists and 6th in repos) But it's DC so it doesn't count.
- josegonzalez 16y agoAre the results for "New York, NY" not mapped to "New York City"? Otherwise I'd be on at least two of those lists. I've never actually tried searching by networks in their api, only by language+filters. Otherwise, looks nifty.
- aaronfeng 16y ago"New York, NY" is not. I have the data, but in that case, I can't tell if you are actually in the city. You can always append NYC to your current location :) I'm open to other possible suggestions.
- josegonzalez 16y agoI'd like to think that "New York, New York" and "New York, NY" are pretty much synonymous for "New York City".
- jdeville 16y agoI really like being able to browse around the most popular projects. I discovered a few I didn't know about.
- mc 16y agoVery happy to see that Phoenix, AZ made the list.
- ahlatimer 16y agoIs the code on GH? If so, the people (myself included) who want to run this for their city could.
- aaronfeng 16y agoCurrently no, yes, that's a great idea.
- cf 16y agoLos Angeles seems like a glaring omission.
- ryanbigg 16y agoNo Australian cities? Boo ;)
- rwaldron 16y agoAs it turns out, I AM awesome enough to be in the top 10 for my city (Boston).